She was in a state of denial, Ken could not be the evil Digimon Kaizar, and it just couldn't be true

She was in a state of denial, Ken could not be the evil Digimon Kaizar, and it just couldn't be true. Takeru looked to Alyssa sitting on the couch in his mother's apartment, Ken had taken off on Airdramon shortly after Alyssa had discovered who he was. They were presently waiting for Koushirou to show up, they needed to talk.

"Alyssa, are you going to be alright?" Miyako asked her, looking over at the girl. Alyssa's head was in her hands and resting on her knees, she had finally stopped crying and had gone silent momentarily.

"I…I don't know," she said slowly. Hikari got up when someone rang the doorbell, since Takeru was trying to keep Daisuke from destroying his mother's apartment.

"Hikari…where's Takeru?" Koushirou asked her. Hikari looked back into the apartment as a loud crash was heard and Takeru's yelling voice at Daisuke.

"So, what's going on?" another voice asked from out in the hall. It was Yamato, so Koushirou hadn't told him yet, nor had Taichi. That was a good thing, sort of.

"You two better come in," Hikari said as she shut the door behind them. Yamato looked around the room, his brother was yelling at Daisuke, Iori and Miyako were sitting on the couch, with an older black haired girl between them who seemed distressed.

"So Ken's probably staying in the Digital World right?" Koushirou asked. The girl between Iori and Miyako nodded.

"Ken? Ken Ichijouji?" he asked, 'Alyssa's brother?' he wanted to ask.

"He didn't come home, we got an email from him," she said as she half sat up, her pale face paled even more as she spotted Yamato.

"Alyssa…" he said slowly and then his face hardened.

"Yamato…" Takeru warned, he did not need his brother upsetting her even more.

"Why Alyssa? Why didn't you tell me you'd come back? Why when I sent you that letter you never wrote back or called?" he almost yelled starting to loose his temper. Alyssa just stared at him blankly then stood up and with such sudden action she ran from the apartment, leaving her shoes and school bag behind. Only Daisuke saw the tears that had fallen from Alyssa's eyes, he turned and looked at Yamato.

"Smooth move Yamato, now you've gone and upset her even more! You think that finding out your brother is the Digimon Kaizar is enough for one day. You didn't' even give her a chance to explain," Daisuke said as he grabbed his bag and got ready to leave. Everyone in the apartment looked at him funny as if there was a piece of spinach between his teeth.

"Yamato, you should…" Iori started to say but before he could finish Yamato had already run out the door and was quickly running after her.

***

Alyssa sat up in the tree at the park and hugged herself, she didn't blame Yamato for being angry at her, but she didn't think it would hurt that much.

"Alyssa!" Yamato called, he'd known where she'd go, it was 'their' spot. She stayed silent hoping he wouldn't see her, but it was too obvious a place. He stopped at the base of the tree and looked up at her his hands on his knees as he breathed rather hard.

"What…are you…doing up there?" he asked her catching his breath.

"I want to be alone Yamato," she said somewhat coldly.

"I deserved that," Yamato said as he slowly made his way up the tree and out onto the branch where she was.

"Listen Yamato, if you're going to yell at me…" she blinked as her sentence was cut off by a short, but sweet kiss from him.

"I'm not going to yell at you, I wanted to apologize," he said. Alyssa blinked as if not really believing what she heard.

"Yamato…YAMATO!" she yelled as he lost his balance and slipped off the branch.

"Owe!" Yamato exclaimed and pouted, causing Alyssa to break out in laughter, holding onto the tree to hold herself up. Now, she knew if Yamato, and Cagnottemon could forgive her, maybe so could all of her other friends.